Contact Zones

Justin Carville teaches historical and theoretical studies in photography at the Institute of Art, Design & Technology, Dun Laoghaire.
Sigrid Lien teaches modern and contemporary Art History, including theory and history of Photography at the Department of Literary, Linguistic and Aesthetic Studies at the University of Bergen.

Acknowledgments
INTRODUCTION
Contact Zones: Photography, Migration, and the United States
Justin Carville and Sigrid Lien
PHOTOGR APHIES, REPRESENTATIONS, AND MIGRATIONS
The Figure of Migration
David Bate
VERNACULAR PHOTOGR APHIES AND MIGR ATION
From Cavan to Kansas: A Photographic Album of Family Migration from Ireland to North America
Orla Fitzpatrick
A Letter from Pat in America: Photo-remittances and the Irish American Diaspora
Justin Carville
DIASPORIC IMAGINATIONS
¿First Pictures¿: New York through the Lens of Emigrated European Photographers in the 1930s and 1940s
Helene Roth
Migrating Images of War and Dislocation: From War Zone to Contact Zone and from Photography to Photomontage
Aleksandra Idzior
Far from Home: Winston Vargas in Washington Heights
Leslie Ureña
EXHIBITING MIGRATIONS
A Box, a Suitcase, a Museum Photographic Records of Croatian Immigrants to the United States
Sandra Križi¿ Roban
What Moves You? Georges Didi-Huberman¿s Arts of Passage and Pittsburgh Stories of Migration
Alexandra Irimia
DOCUMENTING MIGRATIONS
Searching for Oleana: Contemporary Photographic Negotiations of Migration and Settler-Colonial Tropes
Sigrid Lien
The Photographer as Advocate: Representing Migrant Communities in San Francisco and Tijuana
Bridget Gilman
Witnessing the Trauma of Undocumented Migrants in Mexico
Sarah Bassnett
There Was no Record of Her Smile: Muriel Hasbun¿s X post facto Erina Duganne
Contributors
Gallery with Color Plates